SEATTLE: Skilled nursing home design is trapped in a time warp. Despite falling occupancies, consumer resistance and client feedback, rest homes remain resistant to material change.
The combined forces of staff routine, government regulation, a lack of management creativity, the dead hand of industry bodies, and a dearth in leadership has created an inertia.
The sector is in a death roll with a ‘changeling’ crocodile, yet it seems collectively unable to see a way out of its death spiral…